This is a good article, worth reading. Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one? The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars. Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat

Trying to find the time to read Douthat (a futile exercise I know) but I'm too busy editing stories and ruining the workplace.

New York becomes Londerful!

You take BBG away from traders for a day and see what happens. (via @hern.bsky.social)

I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...

Incredibly, the Wall Street Journal has a personal tech reporter whose surname is Jargon.

UK right-wing voters are often racist, we should say it clearly and not be labelled as “scolding” for arguing for our own humanity. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

French lawmakers voted to double its tax on large technology companies, risking a backlash from Donald Trump www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Famously, LOTR is a favourable look at manufacturing and accretion of power.

Nokia is cool again and we’re sure that’s the only 1990s echo rn

Today is absolute japes on breaking tech news.

Never not funny

The Bloomberg executive editor who conceived the viral AI circular financing chart refuses to mine his original hand-drawn version for likes, so I will. Here's the before/after. I don't know who 'David' is.

Nice Bloomberg scoop on the Bank of England raising an eyebrow at AI data centre financing deals. Featuring everyone's favourite chart! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I'd describe my managerial persona as inspired by Clippy.

So many of Farage’s responses in here are vacuous, stroppy or elusive. There’s almost no policy area on which he can be pinned down. And then we get there: It’s just about the vibes. Interview with Mishal Husain via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

After Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire apparently referred to Islam as “a culture that lies about everything,” the VC firm’s Muslim COO resigned. on.ft.com/3WRxrHO

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

This is just wild reading to me because, as the article later points out, women are increasingly holding positions of power at work. www.businessinsider.com/troubling-re...

The two top students in my A-Level English class were me and my best mate, both second-generation Indian immigrants. The English girl in the class wasn't even in third place.

Please do Sapiens so I can retcon my irrational hatred of this book

I just see Substack writers praising other Substack writers as a kind of public mental onanism. Like, by all means furiously consume essays in private. Don’t show me the links like it’s something to be proud of.

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Arguably the best thing about House of Guinness is the Irish response

The shuttering of MTV Base was a crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📢 📢 📢 A story I wrote with a bunch of talented Bloomberg colleagues -- on AI data centers devastating energy grids around the world -- is a Gerald Loeb Awards winner! Woohooo! Dont miss this read ! (Gift link: free to read until Oct 17) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... @bloomberg.com #AI

Reviewed @jacobsilverman.com’s Gilded Rage for @bloomberg.com. A smart, thorough look at the radicalization of silicon valley. Gift link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Good take, re shitposting.

Great piece.

NVIDIA and OpenAi: Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“ @bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

"To make matters worse, you have never reported, and they all know it," writes @lopatto.bsky.social in this advisory note to Bari Weiss www.theverge.com/business/793...

cabinet must have been galling for you then

This touches on something I don’t understand about Bari Weiss/CBS - how is a glorified hot takes merchant going to actually *manage* a newsroom? This stuff is hard! Maybe the answer is - make it not a newsroom. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

You will not convince me The Fold is chic. A fashion brand beloved by Kemi Badenoch and corporate lawyers? ☠️

I find this a little hard to square with the absolute bloodbath that is the UK journalism jobs market rn. www.ft.com/content/c9f9...

Personality socks are a tell.

This is good, and frankly less embarrassing results for me than our news quiz. Yes I know I work here.

Analysis: wholesale electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did in 2020 in US areas located near significant data center activity (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

London-based Evantic Capital, founded by ex-Sequoia VC Matt Miller, raised a $400M fund, with ~12.5% coming from 135 "legends", including CEOs, a novel strategy (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Why is the FT incapable of hiring op-ed writers who are both well-versed in internet culture and also not totally brainrotted, naming no names on the latter. www.ft.com/content/2132...

German investigators conduct raids in relation to Northern Data, which is majority-owned by Tether and has been pivoting from crypto mining to AI computing (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Meta plans to launch paid, ad-free versions of Instagram and Facebook in the UK, each costing £2.99 per month on the web, and £3.99 on iOS and Android (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

What do we call this: gangster mercantilism? The $14 billion price tag proposed for TikTok’s US business values it more like a stuffy old energy or food company than a leading global social media company www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I guess an eternal churn of AI slop is one answer to your core app’s usage dying off.

Soho has a very particular 8.30am smell.

How does one have hobbies as a parent. My hobby is chocolate digestives and maybe 25 minutes of The Queen's Gambit.

Taiwan curbs chip exports to South Africa over national security concerns, the first time it has used its chip industry as a weapon against a China ally (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

"Well what a huge surprise" - no woman, ever

Max Hastings on a visiting Trump www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...